It was late at night, so Chen Mo left Zhang Cheng and his son to stay at home for one night.
After that, they will live in the ranch for a while and teach Chen Mo and others some things to pay attention to when growing vines and grapes...
The guest room we stayed in was on the second floor, with floor-to-ceiling windows on the front, and a large balcony outside. Looking at the reservoir and green mountains, these mountains are also very interesting. There are a few bare oak trees, and the lush grassland on the flat hills looks like it has been carefully groomed.
...Such scenery cannot be seen in China.
Last night I felt that the villa was very big and the interior decoration was luxurious.
When I woke up early in the morning and went out to the guest room, I saw the oil paintings in the corridor... the cypress hollow spiral staircase, the spacious and bright living room...
This is luxurious, simply luxurious, full of style...
Chen Mo was making breakfast. Mrs. Bright brought toast bread yesterday. Chen Mo fried a few steaks and added some lettuce, tomatoes, etc. to make a burger.
"Mr. Chen cooks by himself?" Zhang Cheng looked at Chen Mo busy in the kitchen with some strangeness.
"Occasionally... I like to do it myself." Chen Mo and Zhang Cheng were not familiar with each other, so he didn't say much. He broke off the bread and took out the hot milk: "Try my craftsmanship."
"Thank you Mr. Chen."
The shy Zhang Rui also came to help and brought the breakfast out.
Chen Mo made a gesture of invitation, picked up the burger and took a bite. It tasted good: "The seedlings sent this time are good, at least two-forked ones, and a lot of three-pronged ones. We can continue to discuss future cooperation, but the price is
In terms of price, I want to make it cheaper."
"The price I gave you before was already the lowest price. It can't be any cheaper." Zhang Cheng looked at Chen Mo and paid attention to Chen Mo's expression.
The profit margin of saplings is much greater than imagined.
Even if it is shipped from within the country...if you use sea shipping, once you know the ropes, the transportation fee is really not expensive.
This batch of seedlings worth US$240,000 were sent with two branches and three branches, that is, three and three main branches, with a height of 1.21.5 meters. The data reported were 67-year-old saplings.
Each sapling is about US$110, there are 2,200 saplings. After deducting the 15% customs duty and transportation fee...
A sapling costs US$85, which is about 570 yuan when converted into RMB.
If you do export business, there are preferential domestic taxes, or if you use an offshore company to sell, you will pay less domestic taxes. It’s just the U.S. tariffs...
The actual age of the fruit seedlings cultivated in the shed is only five or six years old, and the height of the saplings reaches the standard. There are many nurseries cultivating tree grapes in China, and there are even more that fail.
Regardless of the high price of tree grapes, if you want to have a certain yield, you need a tree that is more than ten years old. The older the tree, the more productive it is. And even if it is rich, its yield is not high... A 20-year-old tree has a southern climate.
A tree that can produce twenty kilograms is considered a high yield. However, the real price of a ten-year-old tree is not as expensive as what you see online... The tree species that sell at the highest prices online are all modeling trees and bonsais.
2,200 seeds seems like a lot, and if you cultivate them intensively, it only takes up three or four acres.
The southern nursery base cultivates hundreds of acres of tree grapes. Most of the trees are five or six years old, some are seven or eight years old, and even fewer are more than ten years old. It is because they are small that they can be sold at high prices... If you want to bear fruit in the same year, forget it.
Whether it is grafted or not, the tree must be more than ten years old to be reliable.
It takes at least five years for cultivated tree grapes to bear fruit, and it takes more than ten years for the fruit quantity to reach a certain level, and the yield is not high.
"I imported thousands of fruit-bearing seedlings from South America. They have just been planted and there are still fruits hanging on them. I will show you around later..." Chen Mo smiled.
He will not deliberately lower the price, at least it must be an honest price.
It seems from the Internet that domestic seedlings are good, but the price is too expensive. If the price is right, Chen Mo plans to import all the seedlings and just sow the seeds and build a few sheds to show off.
After eating, Chen Mo opened the garage, drove a pickup truck out... made a big bend, drove through the flowing creek, and entered the creek valley.
The scenery along the way is nice.
The mountains here are not particularly steep. With a four-wheel drive, you can basically climb to the top of the mountain...
When you reach the valley, your view suddenly opens up to an endless grape orchard. Two large warehouses are particularly eye-catching...
Chen Mo parked the car in front of the old garden. Here are all tree species that are more than ten years old. Judging from the height, they have reached the level of 15 or even 20 years old.
There was a heavy rain after Christmas, but now the tree grapes seem to have recovered a lot.
The faint scent of flowers in the garden, the densely packed fruits on the trees...
"How long has this tree grape been transplanted?" Zhang Cheng was a little envious and envious. This tree grape grew much better than the tree grape in his orchard. Rich people really can do whatever they want... These saplings look quite old.
Tree branches are also good. How much does it cost to get such a large area of mature high-quality tree species?
"Less than a month."
Less than a month?
Zhang Cheng was startled for a moment, then smiled and said: "Tree grapes are easy to grow and easy to maintain..."
Chen Mo frowned slightly and glanced at him with deep eyes.
Zhang Cheng's face twitched slightly, this...
Chen Mo's phone suddenly rang. He looked at the call and it was from Bai Xiaoou. He looked at Zhang Cheng and shook his head. He walked to the side and picked up: "I'm a busy man. Why are you calling me so early in the morning?"
"At the ranch?"
"exist."
"I'll come over later and have some good wine and meat ready for me."
"Your mother and the others have returned to China?" Chen Mo said with a smile.
"We're back. Chen Xiao said you brought over another batch of vine grapes. I'll come and take a look later, and I'll go back and plant some of the fruit-bearing ones."
"Okay. It's Saturday today. Ask Chen Xiao and the others to come over together. I'll let Chen Chen prepare two lambs and have roasted whole lamb for lunch."
"Would you like me to bring a chef over?"
"Okay. Bring the sauces as well. I don't have them here."
"Haha...ok."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Mo walked over and said, "Planting arborvitae is a temporary interest of mine, but now that I have started planting it, I hope to have several good harvests every year."
Zhang Cheng was a little speechless, this master?
The father and son came to San Francisco a few days ago and called Chen Mo, but he was nowhere to be found... They also found this place from the contact address, and stayed at a resort farm in the town for two days to get some information about the river valley ranch.
The town of St. Beni is not big, with only a few households in the population gathering area. The resort farm in the town is considered a gathering area. The owner of the farm has only heard of Chen Mo, but has never seen it. But as for the Valley Ranch, the people at the resort farm
Know a lot...
A ranch with tens of thousands of acres was sold for US$250 million. The other thing is that it is a ranch that raises Wagyu cattle...
Wagyu beef is not only a breed of cattle, but also requires special feeding methods.
Zhang Cheng and his son knew that Chen Mo was a rich man, and all the tractors in the ranch were Lamborghinis... When they saw this tree vineyard again, they were not too surprised. They just felt that Chen Mo was an inhumane person...
From the previous point of view, Chen Mo is a rich person, but he is stupid and easy to fool with money...
This tree grape really may have been a spur of the moment thing.
There were more than one million orders that were discussed on the Internet before. After investigating some information about River Valley Ranch, Zhang Cheng can be said to be full of confidence...
Now, Zhang Cheng was a little unsure.
Chen Mo made people feel a little cold, and his look just now made people's hearts tremble. And he said, "It's been planted, and I hope there will be a few good harvests every year." He probably didn't know anything about vine grapes.